{"id":1321118,"date":"2025-11-16T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/on-the-hook-in-the-fsb-diplomat-stated-about-the-risk-of-blackmailing-zelensky\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:22:14","slug":"on-the-hook-in-the-fsb-diplomat-stated-about-the-risk-of-blackmailing-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/on-the-hook-in-the-fsb-diplomat-stated-about-the-risk-of-blackmailing-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"On the hook in the FSB: diplomat stated about the risk of blackmailing Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is on the hook for Russian special services, which may at any time release evidence of his cooperation with FSB agent Andriy Derkach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This assumption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jJyZXCpi8k4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was expressed<\/a> on the air of &#8220;Pryamoye&#8221; by diplomat Dmitry Chekalkin.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, it was from the President&#8217;s Office that secret recordings of conversations were transmitted, which is treason, and now Moscow can use this fact for blackmail.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;And now we understand what kind of hook Zelensky himself is on, because with these testimonies that Derkach can give at any moment&#8230; Since most of his energy agents have been pushed aside here, now he can safely hold a press conference in Moscow, where he will tell about who exactly from the President&#8217;s Office gave him these secret materials,&#8221; Chekalkin noted.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/youtu.be\/jJyZXCpi8k4?t=886<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/operation-midas-did-the-fsb-know-about-the-vulnerabilities-of-the-ukrainian-energy-sector\/\">Operation Midas: Did the FSB Know About the Vulnerabilities of the Ukrainian Energy Sector?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> At the same time, he outlined two possible scenarios: either the president was a direct accomplice in these schemes and received his share, or he showed criminal irresponsibility, not controlling the situation. Chekalkin recalled that Dubinsky directly pointed to Yermak at the trial as the organizer of these operations, which, according to the diplomat, were aimed at destroying Ukraine&#8217;s strategic alliance with the United States.<\/p>\n<p> We will remind, after the \u201cMidas\u201d operation, which exposed large-scale corruption in \u201cEnergoatom\u201d and shook up the government offices, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/telegram-atakuie-nabu-perezhyvaie-nashestia-botiv-pislia-operatsii-midas\/\">a systematic campaign to discredit NABU and SAPO was launched in the Ukrainian Telegram<\/a> . Anti-corruption authorities called the operation one of the most effective in 2025, but in parallel with its successes, a wave of identical posts appeared attacking investigators and prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">Investigators do not name a specific &#8220;director&#8221;, but point to a range of possible customers: some Ukrainian political groups that are afraid of anti-corruption cases, Russian influence structures interested in undermining trust in Ukrainian institutions, as well as business networks that make money from &#8220;sinkholes&#8221; in Telegram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of the President&#8217;s Office, said that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/koruptsiia-nevid-iemna-chastyna-ekonomiky-radnyk-yermaka-podoliak-poiasnyv-dii-vlady-pislia-skandalu-v-enerhetytsi\/\">corruption is an integral part of the modern economy,<\/a> regardless of the country&#8217;s political system. He also reported that the Ukrainian authorities responded promptly to the corruption scandal in the energy sector.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is on the hook for Russian special services, which may at any time release evidence of his cooperation with FSB agent Andriy Derkach. This assumption was expressed on the air of &#8220;Pryamoye&#8221; by diplomat Dmitry Chekalkin. According to him, it was from the President&#8217;s Office that secret recordings of conversations were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1321108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1321118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1321108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}